This clipping from an unidentified newspaper was found in a huge collection of non-Craig ephemera. I hope it will be of interest to some of you. The obit is ink-dated Oct 5 1940. JAMES A. CRAIG, EX-RESIDENT, DIES Inventor Once Headed Food Company Here JAMES ARCHIBALD CRAIG, of Fishkill, a former resident of Peekskill at the time he was president of the Economic Feed Company, organized to sell one of the by-products of the Fleishmann Manufacturing Company about 20 years ago, died yesterday at 2:25 o'clock at Vassar Bros. Hospital, Poughkeepsie, after an illness of seven weeks. Mr. Craig was a well-known inventor and had many friends in Peekskill. He was born in Canton, Indiana, April 1, 1863, the son of JAMES ARCHIBALD CRAIG and MARGARET RAY (CRAIG), who had come to the United States from Kilmarnock, Scotland. Mr. Craig was the inventor of the first molasses feed, called the Eureka mixer used in every grain and feed mill in the United States. He was also the originator of the first molasses Norse feed in Montreal, Canada, 45 years ago, and also built mixing plants in Buffalo, NY, Toronto, Canada, Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio, and in the South, New Orleans, La. and Memphis, Tenn. The past year he had invented the Craig fire hose reel, which will shortly be brought on the market which takes the place of the old flat canvas hose that hangs on the fire-hose rack. The Craig fire reel will inflate the hose while wound up on the reel and prevent the fire from making headway. A few years ago a demonstration was given before President Roosevelt at his Hyde Park home, the reel having been hooked up and demonstrated on the first fire stanchion that had been used by the City of Poughkeepsie and later placed at the President's home. The President's statement after seeing it demonstrated was that these Craig hose reels should be on every ship that floats the water. His other inventions were the first double-faced grinding plate for nutrition mills. A leather and a lumber dryer to dry the material by air. An oil cup for street car[s] which was placed into the bearing box above the axles and used with lubricating oil instead of grease. Recently he had discovered and experimented with China grass (rammie) that he found growing on the humus and peat farm owned by his son WILLIAM H. [or N.] CRAIG, at Fishkill, NY. He was a direct descendant of JAMES ARCHIBALD CRAIG, of Parliamentary reform fame and who has a 60-foot monument to his name in Kilmarnock, Scotland who had in the early part of the 19th century devoted himself to his unselfish zeal, to the common cause of the people is so inscribed. Mr. Craig had been very active right up until the time of his present illness excavating humus from his son's farm at Fishkill where he had lived the past 20 years. He leaves, besides his wife, Mrs. MARGARET W. CRAIG, one son, WILLIAM N. [or H.], formerly of Poughkeepsie; one daughter Mrs. ALBERT W, MEAD, of Peekskill, and five grandchildren. The funeral will be held Monday, October 7, at 2 PM from the funeral parlor on South Hamilton Street, Poughkeepsie, NY, where the service will be in charge of the Rev. F. C. Leeming, rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Peekskill. ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour